Helping Others Gal.6:2 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO Helping others to bear their burdens has many benefits.  The benefits of helping others are: You lighten their burden – Gal 6:2. When you help someone with a job you lighten their load.  Many hands make light work.  By helping them you make their...

The Lord Trieth the Hearts Prov 17:3 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO No matter what it is or who it is that you love, until your love has been tried, there is no way to tell for sure whether your love will stand up to the test.  That’s why the Lord trieth...

John’s second epistle is addressed to “the elect lady and her children”.  John is the elder, 1 Pet 5:1. She is elect, meaning she’s saved. Why did John write this second epistle to them? To express his true love to her and them, v.1-3. When John, the elder, expressed his...

Pureness of Heart Prov. 22:11 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO In Prov 22:11, Solomon wrote about a person that loveth pureness of heart.  Now think about that… pureness of heart.  That should be the goal of every Christian.  I realize that the heart is deceitful and desperately wicked.  But with Christ in...

Our text is Jn 13:34.  Do you know one of the reasons you are now saved?  Because Jesus commanded, “Ye must be born again,” [Jn 3:7].  And it’s a good thing that we are saved because now we are going to heaven and without being born again we would wind...

In 1 Jn 4:7, John writes, “Beloved, let us love one another”.  As we have mentioned in each of these lessons on 1 John, John’s epistle reads like a continuation of John’s gospel.  The subject of 1 Jn 4:7-21 is a thorough discourse on what Jesus said in John 13:34-35....

As we studied in Sunday school, 1 John is doctrinally applied to Tribulation saints.   However, excellent spiritual applications can be made throughout this epistle.  One such application is the test of your testimony.  You can TEST your TESTimony. Three times in 1 Jn 2 we find the expression, “He...

The King Shall Be His Friend Prov. 22:11 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO In Prov 22:11 Solomon said, The king shall be his friend. If you want King Jesus to be your friend then you will love certain things he loves.  King Jesus will be your friend if you: Love the Lord...

The Bible says that God is love, 1 Jn 4:8.  Love is in his nature.  So, we must know what to do with God’s love. Receive his love – 1 Jn 4:7-10.  God’s love was manifested in the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ.  He is the propitiation for...

God is love.  There are certainly many characteristics of God.  God’s love is one of the principal ones.  God’s Love Is: Perfect Love In Matt 5:43-48 God even loves his enemies.  There is a time for judgment, of course.  But look how he has given everything to his enemies.  In...